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[Q] Extreme sensor usage Gallery and Camera apps

Hey everyone,
I'm on CM7 (Temasek's KANG) and Gallery and Camera are draining my battery majorly by heavy sensor usage. Often either of them is responsible for ~30% of my battery usage. I've searched here and googled, but I didn't find a solution. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!

I too have same thing here, but i think its normal coz any phone on which I've used cyanogenmod, shows usage on camera and gallery for no reasonreason
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nexus2515 said:
I too have same thing here, but i think its normal coz any phone on which I've used cyanogenmod, shows usage on camera and gallery for no reasonreason
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I know it happens for more people, so I can't imagine there's no fix =/

+1 to this, which kernel are you guys using?

same here, but it also happens using other apps like youtube, the only way to fix is to reboot the phone... in some cases temporary disabling auto screen rotation may resolve the issue
i already tried switching from stock kernel to vadonka's builds with no results, i'm on temasek's rc1-89
does this happen only on cm7 based roms??

fakeasd said:
same here, but it also happens using other apps like youtube, the only way to fix is to reboot the phone... in some cases temporary disabling auto screen rotation may resolve the issue
i already tried switching from stock kernel to vadonka's builds with no results, i'm on temasek's rc1-89
does this happen only on cm7 based roms??
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Have you tried temasek's kernel? I'm trying that one atm and it seems to work better. (Can't confirm yet, will update when sure)
I also changed the default gallery for QuickPic that doesn't uses the sensor and disabled the sensor before rebooting, that avoids sensor use at all until I really need it i.e. watching a video. I'm more like a vertical phone user so I'm ok with it. Can you confirm that the bug isn't on stock based roms?

ronalith said:
Have you tried temasek's kernel? I'm trying that one atm and it seems to work better. (Can't confirm yet, will update when sure)
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any news? i'll try temasek's kernel later when i'm back home and will report my findings here
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I also changed the default gallery for QuickPic
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that's the first thing i did because apps like gallery3d (and youtube) use sensors regardless of your display rotation settings

As far as I know the sensor issue in gallery isn't as bad as we think. Though the battery history shows big % but actually it uses near to nothing.

temasek's kernel seems to not trigger the bug that often, or at least after apps are killed seems to not leave the sensor on use, I cannot be sure as I haven't checked the logcat or anything... only the battery stats.
Do you guys know if partial wakes are too heavy on battery? facebook seems to keep the phone awake a lot (like 50%) so it doesn't sleeps.
now that temasek says that it's not much of a battery drain I might go back to etana's kernel after trying this one for some days, to compare better
oh and temasek ---> HUGE THANKS FOR YOUR ROM!

CyanVivo 10.2 4.3

does anyone have the problem that the apn's dont save when entered on Szeso's 4.3 Rom? cuz it seems that every time i put it in and save it it disappears

matvey123 said:
does anyone have the problem that the apn's dont save when entered on Szeso's 4.3 Rom? cuz it seems that every time i put it in and save it it disappears
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Well i dont have that issue you are saying. But try restoring your APN to default settings and use.
Make sure you save before exit. It should work then.
:good::good:

I check this also - no issue. Check the saving as meantioned above.
Incredibly Tapatalked!

idk i just went back to szeso's 4.2 because 4.3 has too many bugs and not everything works with it yet

root, WiFi and ringtone
matvey123 said:
idk i just went back to szeso's 4.2 because 4.3 has too many bugs and not everything works with it yet
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Although with many bugs at present I like this rom, for me the top 3 problem that really have impact on daily usage is root, WiFi and ringtone.
Anyway, thanks Sezeso for his great job!:good:

dreamerforce said:
Although with many bugs at present I like this rom, for me the top 3 problem that really have impact on daily usage is root, WiFi and ringtone.
Anyway, thanks Sezeso for his great job!:good:
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To gain root access you just need to flash SuperSu for 4.2 or 4.3. When I was using 4.3 I had no problems with Wifi.

Yea the wifi got fixed.
Press "thanks" if I helped you out!

root, WiFi solved!
matvey123 said:
To gain root access you just need to flash SuperSu for 4.2 or 4.3. When I was using 4.3 I had no problems with Wifi.
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Yep, after flash the 2013.10.05 version ROM WiFi is OK now and as you suggested to flash SuperSu1.65 root also OK. Really great job for all you guys here! Thanks a lot!:good::good::good:

All bugs are fixed . Check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2419875

wyhao109 said:
All bugs are fixed . Check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2419875
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and now look at second post and you'll see a full list of bugs present at latest build.
here they are:
# Capacitive buttons brightness bug: button's brightness is no longer changed when changing screen brightness - it always stays at max. Perhaps it's a side-effect of CM introducing new feature - controlling time-out of button's light
# Wi-fi on screen-off bug: when screen is turned off, wi-fi activity halts. I.e. if you download something through wi-fi and turn off display, then download will stop as well (actually it will continue through 3G, if available). Disregards setting about wi-fi mode with disabled screen. 3g continues to work with screen off without any issues. This bug was present in 10.1 as well and, perhaps, in 10.0 too.
# Flashlight bug: turns off, when screen is turned off.
# CRT-Off animation bug: screen turns off BEFORE playing CRT animation, while it should happen at the same time. Results in max brightness CRT-off animation.
# Green tint in camera bug: when taking photos through stock camera app in portrait mode, it will show green tint on "snap photo" animation. Actual photo is fine. Landscape mode works properly.
# Root access bug: It's not always possible to get Root access, even if all proper steps were taken.
# Failure to wake up from deep sleep bug: not really traceable. Happens randomly. Phone fails to wake up from deep sleep sometimes. It may happen when it's charging or just when it's idling on the desk, still, the bug appears regularly every few weeks. Might be caused by some voltage tweaks in kernel.
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Shadowofagony said:
and now look at second post and you'll see a full list of bugs present at latest build.
here they are:
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Maybe you forgot a sentence which is
Stable #3 bugz
and the latest build is #4

wyhao109 said:
Maybe you forgot a sentence which is
Stable #3 bugz
and the latest build is #4
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Minor bugs were not fixed in Stable #4. Only the major ones were squished =)
For more information look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46347775&postcount=739

wyhao109 said:
Maybe you forgot a sentence which is
Stable #3 bugz
and the latest build is #4
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yep, but these bugs are in stable 4 too, u can try it out. in stable 3 there was a few bus more.

[Q] Need to wait a while for the screen to turn on

Hey,
So my dad isnt exactly satisfied with the custom ROM I flashed on his device, he needs to wait about 4 - 5 seconds (!) when theres an incoming call for the screen to turn on. The ringtone will keep on going off during that few seconds, but the screen will be black.
So I tested it on my Nexus 4, and no such issue has been spotted by me. Although, on his device, no matter how many times I tried, the issue was never gone and I had to wait a couple of seconds for the screen to turn on so I could see who's calling.
I'm not sure whether it is a kitkat issue or not, I tried 2 different roms, first BeanStalk, and now CyanFox, both had the same issue.
I also tried to flash CM10.1, but the keyboard kept on crashing after a fresh flash, wipes didnt help (maybe someone could give me a hand here?).
Another question is, where can I find some good call recording app? the ones from the play store aren't good, they only record one side of the call, never both
tl;dr:
is there some setting that I should change for the screen to turn on quicker when theres an incoming call on kitkat?
what to do if I want to downgrade from kitkat to jellybean?
is there some GOOD call recorder app around?
thank you

Pawelss said:
Hey,
So my dad isnt exactly satisfied with the custom ROM I flashed on his device, he needs to wait about 4 - 5 seconds (!) when theres an incoming call for the screen to turn on. The ringtone will keep on going off during that few seconds, but the screen will be black.
So I tested it on my Nexus 4, and no such issue has been spotted by me. Although, on his device, no matter how many times I tried, the issue was never gone and I had to wait a couple of seconds for the screen to turn on so I could see who's calling.
I'm not sure whether it is a kitkat issue or not, I tried 2 different roms, first BeanStalk, and now CyanFox, both had the same issue.
I also tried to flash CM10.1, but the keyboard kept on crashing after a fresh flash, wipes didnt help (maybe someone could give me a hand here?).
Another question is, where can I find some good call recording app? the ones from the play store aren't good, they only record one side of the call, never both
tl;dr:
is there some setting that I should change for the screen to turn on quicker when theres an incoming call on kitkat?
what to do if I want to downgrade from kitkat to jellybean?
is there some GOOD call recorder app around?
thank you
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If you still on cm10.1 then download keyboard from market and you are good to go Also stock 4.1.2 has this lag issue when incoming call its pretty annoying really

tuncay_93 said:
If you still on cm10.1 then download keyboard from market and you are good to go Also stock 4.1.2 has this lag issue when incoming call its pretty annoying really
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hey, thanks for your reply
actually no, STOCK 4.1.2 didnt have this issue, it started to show when I flashed 4.4.2 on it, is there some sort of fix for this or do I have to downgrade to JB? I'd rather stick to KK as I prefer it more.
on the other hand my dad hated google hangouts and he wants the stock messaging app back, I guess I can only go with CM
also I cant install a keyboard from the market, because I cant even log in to my google account, I cant get through the setup without a few things crashing over and over again, every second or so. the keyboard doesnt even show up

delete the latinIme.apk from the zip file you are trying to flash and substitute it with one from the other roms you tried flashing.
I know how to control the delay with which the ringer starts but not screen :s
These commands I think only help when call ends but it doesn't hurt to try, add them (or check the values if already present)
to build.prop in zipfile before you flash it
Code:
ro.lge.proximity.delay=5
mot.proximity.delay=5
I am on kitkat right now and have no lag issue...have you tried changing kernel?

Rudjgaard said:
delete the latinIme.apk from the zip file you are trying to flash and substitute it with one from the other roms you tried flashing.
I know how to control the delay with which the ringer starts but not screen :s
These commands I think only help when call ends but it doesn't hurt to try, add them (or check the values if already present)
to build.prop in zipfile before you flash it
Code:
ro.lge.proximity.delay=5
mot.proximity.delay=5
I am on kitkat right now and have no lag issue...have you tried changing kernel?
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hey, thanks for your reply
I flashed Nameless ROM and surprisingly the lag issue is gone, and due to stripped gapps I flashed, I got the old messaging app back, which is quite the perfect combo, now the only thing I am missing is a good call recording app, is there a chance you can suggest one to me?
thanks again!

Pawelss said:
hey, thanks for your reply
I flashed Nameless ROM and surprisingly the lag issue is gone, and due to stripped gapps I flashed, I got the old messaging app back, which is quite the perfect combo, now the only thing I am missing is a good call recording app, is there a chance you can suggest one to me?
thanks again!
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Still havent tried nameless but i did red the thread about it. Seems everyone likes it. It should be good

tuncay_93 said:
Still havent tried nameless but i did red the thread about it. Seems everyone likes it. It should be good
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well I tried it out, the rom is nice and all, but my phone is extremely slow, the lag issue with phone calls is back, sometimes turning the screen off is impossible, or takes up to 2 minutes (!). turning it back on isnt much better either, I dont know what the problem is, the same thing happened on the BeanStalk ROM so I assume it isnt a software issue, but a hardware one, do you have any ideas what could be the problem and how can I solve it?

I want to tell you my experience about custom roms.
I don't know if you tried this combo: CM11 + kicos kernel (modified iodak's kernel) + minimal PA gapps
I works for me very well.

LGaljo said:
I want to tell you my experience about custom roms.
I don't know if you tried this combo: CM11 + kicos kernel (modified iodak's kernel) + minimal PA gapps
I works for me very well.
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yeah, but shouldnt all the 4.4.2 ROMs be quite snappy? doesn't kitkat reduce the hardware requirements? why would JB work fine (or so I think, I'll go back to stock in a few mins and see) and KK be laggy as hell?
I've got a theory, I'm not a hardware guy and I dont know if I'm right or not, but:
could be that one of the cores is damaged and the system tries to switch some tasks to the damaged core (if android handles different cores the way I think) and that core doesnt really work the way it should, causing the entire system to work like a granny?

Pawelss said:
well I tried it out, the rom is nice and all, but my phone is extremely slow, the lag issue with phone calls is back, sometimes turning the screen off is impossible, or takes up to 2 minutes (!). turning it back on isnt much better either, I dont know what the problem is, the same thing happened on the BeanStalk ROM so I assume it isnt a software issue, but a hardware one, do you have any ideas what could be the problem and how can I solve it?
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This is probably some wake/lock problem with software. Also on my o2x i've noticed strange lag when i press the power key it has lag until the screen comes on buttons below the screen light and after a couple of seconds the screen. It has 4.3 CM rom there if your father is using this phone i would suggest you some stock based rom with custom kernel. They should not have problems like these.

tuncay_93 said:
This is probably some wake/lock problem with software. Also on my o2x i've noticed strange lag when i press the power key it has lag until the screen comes on buttons below the screen light and after a couple of seconds the screen. It has 4.3 CM rom there if your father is using this phone i would suggest you some stock based rom with custom kernel. They should not have problems like these.
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That still the best sollution for him - optimized kernel with stable ROM. He probably isn't techno freak?

tuncay_93 said:
This is probably some wake/lock problem with software. Also on my o2x i've noticed strange lag when i press the power key it has lag until the screen comes on buttons below the screen light and after a couple of seconds the screen. It has 4.3 CM rom there if your father is using this phone i would suggest you some stock based rom with custom kernel. They should not have problems like these.
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could be, however, it isnt only for the power button, when the screen is off and a call is coming, it needs a few seconds for the screen to turn on, after the call is done, the system is all choppy and laggy. Turning the screen off after that is also nearly impossible, due to power button malfunction. I went back to stock for now and I'll see if the lag is gone, if it isnt, then its probably a hardware issue.
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yeah, I'm on stock 4.1.2 and the issue isnt gone.
crap.

sounds like a problem in the timing the processor uses for scaling frequencies...
hav no idea what could be causing it unless you have some kernel tweak app and set wrong values

Have you tried clean flashing the Roms you installed? Have you Factory-Reset, Cleared cache, cleared Dalvik cache, and maybe did a system partition format before flashing?
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Xperia T Official 4.3 Update Bugs

There's an annoying bug in the 4.3 update,volume level doesn't appear when changing volume.
Tell me if you've discovered any other bugs

MetalDaRyl said:
There's an annoying bug in the 4.3 update,volume level doesn't appear when changing volume.
Tell me if you've discovered any other bugs
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Try rebooting your device! Havent seen this issue

Try reflashing the ROM or flash the one from another region, sometimes it's region dependent, on one device it may have bugs, on another it may not
My phone is T. Xperia T.

MetalDaRyl said:
There's an annoying bug in the 4.3 update,volume level doesn't appear when changing volume.
Tell me if you've discovered any other bugs
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I have exact same problem ; volume level animation was working well until i connected earphones

Xperia T 4.3 bugs
I have the same volume slider bug. I tried to do a clean install of the firmware and that resolved it for all of an hour then it's back to the black bar. My phone has also turned itself off while on the charger once. I recall this being a bug with the leaked firmware but assumed it would be resolved in the final release version

having same problem but whjen insatleed the update it was normal but in between i am also facing problem of no slider animation......
i have attached scrren shot...

The main problem
Its not the roms its the theme this bug only happens when changing the theme its expected really I assume the apk for that them isn't compatible with the t really causing the volume bar to look like that. its something sony need to work on when making these apks for all xperia 4.3 devices . maybe a dev can fix it or modify the apk

MetalDaRyl said:
There's an annoying bug in the 4.3 update,volume level doesn't appear when changing volume.
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its only problem when you download theme and change

Thanks to all of you for your replies!

Select any pre-installed theme,reboot...will fix the problem

volume panel.problem
Dear members,
I m also facing the same volume panel problem in VODAFONE firmware. After installing CE1 firmware the is was rectified. Now dont have any issues.

MetalDaRyl said:
Select any pre-installed theme,reboot...will fix the problem
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Thanks a lot. it works for me.

MetalDaRyl said:
Select any pre-installed theme,reboot...will fix the problem
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Thanks. After playing around with it I've determined that my issue appears to have been related to the 'Tri Flat' theme. When I switch back to one of the pre-installed themes and reboot, everything seems to work fine. Shame really coz I really like that theme

Vodafone UK, wifi disables and have to switch in and out of aeroplane mode for it to re-enable

hi
MetalDaRyl said:
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hi am have the same issues

Phone goes crazy when (I guess) overheated

Hi guys, I have annoying probnlem with my LG 4x... When I work little bit longer on my phone, it just starts to behave crazy. Screen starts to "touch himself" I just look at it and he starts to get in menus, opening pictures, closing apps, opening new ones... I just lock screen for 10 secs and than everything is fine for few minutes. Than same thing again. This happens with every ROM and every karnel I try til now. Works fine only with stock. I'm now on Beanstalk 4.4 and iodak 9.95. Thanks!!!

flashroyal said:
Hi guys, I have annoying probnlem with my LG 4x... When I work little bit longer on my phone, it just starts to behave crazy. Screen starts to "touch himself" I just look at it and he starts to get in menus, opening pictures, closing apps, opening new ones... I just lock screen for 10 secs and than everything is fine for few minutes. Than same thing again. This happens with every ROM and every karnel I try til now. Works fine only with stock. I'm now on Beanstalk 4.4 and iodak 9.95. Thanks!!!
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Its a weird issue, are you sure it works fine on stock? because it sounds like a digitizer issue to me (rather than software, since the rest of us dont have this issue)
im not sure where to begin lol, can you pull some logs? (dmesg and logcat)

Oh.. and I guessed it was only me.
I have this problem too, works fine with stock but it goes crazy with custom rom.
Any idea ?

stefan2012 said:
Oh.. and I guessed it was only me.
I have this problem too, works fine with stock but it goes crazy with custom rom.
Any idea ?
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Logs?

JoinTheRealms said:
Its a weird issue, are you sure it works fine on stock? because it sounds like a digitizer issue to me (rather than software, since the rest of us dont have this issue)
im not sure where to begin lol, can you pull some logs? (dmesg and logcat)
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I saw this problem first time when I instaled facebok massanger, so I thought app was problem...uninstaled it, same thing again...new rom, new karnel, same thing again...today my phone was on sun, and I have been using it for 3 minutes...same thing again
and if you please can just shortly explain me how to pull those logs

flashroyal said:
I saw this problem first time when I instaled facebok massanger, so I thought app was problem...uninstaled it, same thing again...new rom, new karnel, same thing again...today my phone was on sun, and I have been using it for 3 minutes...same thing again
and if you please can just shortly explain me how to pull those logs
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Its easier for me and better for you if i leave this here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2414731 (worth bookmarking:good

JoinTheRealms said:
Its easier for me and better for you if i leave this here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2414731 (worth bookmarking:good
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Sorry for a late answer, I was in my night shift. I hope that's it. One more thing...my cpu temperature when this happens is around 50°C...is that normal temp???

flashroyal said:
Sorry for a late answer, I was in my night shift. I hope that's it. One more thing...my cpu temperature when this happens is around 50°C...is that normal temp???
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No worries, nothing out of the ordinary in the logs, its looking more like hardware(hopefully im wrong). It might be worth testing a stock rom under the same conditions again, if there is no issue, then theres something weird going on. btw 50c is fine temp for cpu, around 75c is the limit.
Can you get a screen recording of it? (most 4.4 based roms have this functionality built in) this could be helpful also https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ds.cpuoverlay

JoinTheRealms said:
No worries, nothing out of the ordinary in the logs, its looking more like hardware(hopefully im wrong). It might be worth testing a stock rom under the same conditions again, if there is no issue, then theres something weird going on. btw 50c is fine temp for cpu, around 75c is the limit.
Can you get a screen recording of it? (most 4.4 based roms have this functionality built in) this could be helpful also https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ds.cpuoverlay
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I don't know why, but every time I tried to record screen, phone just reboots. I tried with various apps, every time same thing. I cant find built in app in beanstalk 4.4. I'll try stock again but cant before tomorow. Thank you for your time

Use beanstalk with grouper blobs, and press vol up and power simultaneously to record
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